[Novalug] OT: A Friday Blooper

Dave Winn winndm@gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 19:10:38 EST 2014


In the early 90's it was uncommon to find power connectors which were
formed to prevent you from plugging things together in the wrong
orientation.

I managed to toast a several thousand dollar hard drive by plugging in its
power connector backwards.  Ooops!

Uncle Sam paid the bill, and I have not (so far) repeated that mistake!



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Roger W. Broseus <rogerb@bronord.com>wrote:

>  Attempting to setup a PC from scratch, I found myself in an infinite loop
> at boot: no matter what settings that I fiddled with in the BIOS settings,
> I could not get the darn thing to boot from CD/DVD.
>
> After multiple attempts, the problem was found to be related to
> orientation of the CD/DVD player: it's mounted so that the disk holder is
> oriented vertically, leading to my confusion about orientation of the DVD
> when inserted in the holder: it had been upside down and, therefore,
> unreadable.
>
> Parenthetically, I'm capable of much more stupid errors. Hope you all got
> a chuckle out of this. I'm still laughing at myself.
>
> --
> --
> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
>     Email: RogerB@bronord.com
>     Web Site: www.bronord.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug@calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>



-- 
Dave Winn
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.firemountain.net/pipermail/novalug/attachments/20140118/db0c61d5/attachment.htm>


More information about the Novalug mailing list